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LABOR LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY
GIVE THEIR APPROVAL,
AND MINERS WILL GET SUPPORT.
A Meeting Held In Pitt»burg and the Situ¬
ation Fully Discussed by Gom-
pers, Ratchford and Others.
The greatest gathering of labor
leaders that ever assembled in this
f^ry held in Pittsburg, goring . . a national Pa., ,. Friday _ strike , night was
to devise means to assist the miners in
their contest for increased wages.
The conference was called suddenly,
but the officials responded represent-
ing nearly every branch of organized
labor in the United States. Those
present were:
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
M. L. Ratchford, national president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer¬
ica.
M. M. Garland, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers.
Stephen Madden, secretary of the
Amalgamated association.
J. M. Hughes, first vice-president
of the Federation of Metal Trades.
M. J. Counahan, national secretary
of the Journeymen Plumbers’ Associ¬
ation.
M. P. Carrick, president of the
Brotherhood of Painters and Decora¬
tors.
D. R. Thomas, president of the Na¬
tional Pattern Makers’ League.
W. P. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees.
Frederick Dolan, district president
United Mine Workers.
The session was secret, and it was
almost midnight when it was over.
The press committee, Messrs. Gom¬
pers, Ratchford and Counahan, then
gave out the following statement in
which was corporated, they said, all
that was done at the conference. The
manifesto follows:
“After an informal discussion, reports
were made by Messrs. Ratchford, Dolan
and Warner in regard to the situation of
the movement, and it demonstrated that the
situation In West Virginia required atten¬
tion in order that the suspension should
be absolutely general and success assured.
With that object in view, action was recom¬
mended by President Gompers, of the
American Feds ration of Labor, and it was
determined upon to overcome this feature
of the contest. It was also determined that
every effort be made on the part of those
present to secure the co-operation and
practical aid of organized labor for tho
struggling miners.
“All the circumstances warrant the Arm
conviction that the miners will ultimately
achieve victory and to this end the aid of
the labor and the sympathetic publio is in¬
voked. Conscious of the great Interest
which the public has in a contest so wide¬
spread as that of the miners, it gives us
great satisfaction to know that the miners
have not been and are not no v opposed to
arbitration. We, therefore, urge and advise
that a conference be held by the representa¬
tives of the miners and the operators with a
visw of arriving at a settlement of the pres¬
ent suspension.”
To Stop in AVest. Virginia.
Notwithstanding the positive an¬
nouncement by the committee that the
statement furnished the press covered
all the proceedings of the conference,
it is known that an organized effort to
secure a general suspension of mining
in West Virginia was decided upon.
After a thorough canvass of the sit¬
uation it was unanimously agreed that
the West Virginia miners held the key
to the situation and without their
united support the success of the gen¬
eral movement would be greatly jeop¬
ardized. In furtherance of this de¬
termination, the officials present
pledged themselves to send into this
field a full quota of the best organizers
in their Several associations.
After adjournment in response to the
question whether a 2 per cent assess¬
ment on all organized labor,, as con¬
templated, would be made, jj'Mviideiit
Dolan, of the Pittsburg distal 1 said
he thought such action woul ' 'entu-
ally be taken.
He would not admit, however, that
tht, matter of assessment had been
considered at the conference, or that
the question of a general sympathetic
strike had been discussed.
DISPENSARY SHORTAGES
Surprise Members of the South Carolina
Board of Control.
A shortage amounting to $15,000 of
the moneys due by county dispensers
of the state were brought to light by
the South Carolina dispensary beard
of control at its meeting in Columbia.
For tho period betweeu March 28,
1895, and November 30, 1896, the
shortage is $12,702.S2. Examination
reveals the fact that the bonds given
by the dispensers who have fallen be¬
hind in their accounts are in each case
worthless, and that no steps have ever
been taken to punish any of the of¬
fenders. This showing has created a
sensation.
Department of Public Health.
A Washington dispatch says: A bill
providing for the creation of a depart¬
ment of public health, the head of
which is to be a member of the cabt-
net, was introduced in the senate
Wednesday by Senator Mallory.
Sentence of Luis Reduced.
The sentence of Dr. Joseph J. Luis,
the Cuban patriot, has been reduced
by United States Judge Morris, at
Baltimore, from eighteen months to
one year in jail.
SENATOR HARRIS BEAD.
Well Known Tenno«*tt«mn and Prominent
In Naiiou’rt Council*.
Senator Xsliam G. Harris, of Ten¬
nessee, died at liis residence in Wash¬
ington a few minutes before 5 o’clock
Thursday afternoon. The senator, who
was suffering with stomach trouble,
had been growing constantly weaker
for several days past, the intense sum¬
mer heat which has prevailed greatly
debilitating him and no doubt hasten¬
ing his end.
Ishani Green Harris was born near
Tullahoma, Tenn., February 10, 1818,
the son of a poor farmer. He became
clerk in a country store at the age of
14, attended a country school, and at
the age of 19 settled in Tippah county,
Mississippi, where he engaged in bus-
iuess on liis own account and became
a successful merchant. Ho studied
law at night and was admitted to the
bar in 1841.
He was elected to the Tennessee
legislature in 1815 and was a repre-
sentative in congress from 1849 to
1853. He refused a renomination in
the latter year, and removed to Mem-
phis, where he settled as a- lawyer. In
’56 he w'as a presidential elector; was
elected governor of Tennessee one
year later and was re-elected for the
two successive terms.
He was a volunteer in the Confed¬
erate army and served on the staff of
General A. S. Johnston.
At the close of the war he returned
to Memphis and resinned the practice
of law. In 1877 he was elected to the
United States senate and re-elected in
1882 and again in 1888. He was a
man of strong intellect and great power
in debate. Few men have wielded
more influence in the politics of his
native state.
CLEVELAND WRITES A LETTER
To the Chairman of tlie Gold Central Com¬
mittee of Illinois.
A special from Rock Island, Ill.,
says: Ppul Kersch, the well-known
German editor and chairman of the
state central oommittee of the Illinois
national democrats, has a letter from
ex-President Cleveland which was
read at the Iowa state democratic con¬
vention. It is as follows:
“GniT Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass.,
June 29.—Paul Kersch, Esq. Dear Sir—My
love of true Democracy is so intense and my
belief in the necessity of its supremacy to
the welfare of the country is so clear that
I oannot fail to sympathize with every effort
to save the principles of my party from
threatened abandonment. I believe the very
existence of true Democracy as an agency
of good to tho American people is in tho
hands of those who are willing to ba guided
by the declaration of principles announced
by tho national Democratic party. It is a
high mission to thus have in keeping the life
and usefulness of the party which has de¬
served so well of our countrymen, aud the
Important consideration involved, should
surely stimulate patriotic effort. The work
before us is above partisan triumphs and
its immediate rewards. Tho question is,
are w» doing our duty to our country and
to the principles of our party? No success
worth the name can he reached except in
the patli of principle. I hope the national
Democrats of Illinois will not wait to exhib¬
it to their followers in every state the bright
light of true Democracy.
“Yours very truly,
“Gboveh Clevelaxd.”
RUIZ CASE READY.
Claim Against Spain Made Out ami Will
Bo Pushed.
Tlie state department of officials, at
Washington, after weeks of hard work,
have completed the iireparation of our
case in the prosecution of the Ruiz
claim. After receiving the approval
of the president, it will be turned
over to Minister Woodford for presen¬
tation to the Madrid foreign office
when he sails from New York on the
28th.
In the jireparation of this case Mr.
Calhoun, the United States special
commissioner, has contributed the
principal part, hut the law officers cf
the state department have done much
to present the facts collected to him in
the strongest light and establish a
good basis for the claim of indemnity
originally fixed at $150,000, which is
to be urged against the Spanish gov¬
ernment.
QUEEN PARDONS CUBANS.
Many Men Will De Allowed To R**urn To
Their Homes.
The queen regent has pardoned 108
Cubans who had been deported to the
Spanish penal settlements at Ceuta,
Ferdinando and Chaffriue islands. The
men pardoned will bo permitted to
return to Cuba.
LEE’S GOOD ACCOUNT
Shows a Large Surplus of the Money Ap¬
propriated for Cuban Aid.
United States Consul General Lee
has been rendering some account to
the government of his expenditures
from the fund appropriated by con¬
gress for the relief of destitute Amer¬
ican citizens in Cuba.
His figures were presented to the
cabinet Friday, and the showing was
remarkable for it appeared that of the
total of $50,000 at the disposition of
Gen. Lee, he had expended only $6,000
and yet had given substantial relief to
every distressed American whom ho
could find ready to receive aid and be¬
sides had shipped some of them back
to the United States.
TO RUSH TARIFF BILL
House Committee on Kulos Will Allow
Only Short Debate.
The house committee on rules deci¬
ded Thursday to present a special or¬
der sending the tariff' bill to coufer-
ence as soon as it was received from
the senate. This will give but 20
minutes’ debate on a side. The dem¬
ocrats tried to secure an agreement
for a time to debate the conference re¬
port, but none was made. The repub¬
licans offered a day, and the demo¬
crats asked for three or four days.
THROUUH GEORGIA.
A consultation will be called at the
chamber of commerce, at Atlanta,
next week to organize for the enter¬
tainment of the confederate veterans
next year. This meeting will be only
a preliminary discussion, and will be
probably followed by a movement to
organize.
* * *
E. C. Flanagan’s trial is set for July
26th at Decatur. His first trial was
ns to his sanity, and he was found to
be sane by the verdict of the jury.
Now he has to be tried for murder.
Flanagan is in the DeKalb county jail
His victims were Mrs. Allen aud Miss
Ruth Slack.
Fulton county’s delinquent tax pay¬
ers must pay up or lose their property.
The board of county commissioners
have resolved to force a collection of
back taxes due the state and county,
resolution was adopted directing
the sale of all property of persons who
Dave failed to pay their tax assess-
me nts.
The state school commission is bus¬
ily engaged considering some means
for reducing the expenses of school
books throughout the state. The ques¬
tion of uniformity is being discussed,
but tlie commission refuses to give
out their deliberations. It is proba¬
ble, though, they will agree on a rec¬
ommendation of non-uniformity of
text books.
Dr. Payne, the state chemist, has
just sent a magnificent carload of
Georgia wheat, oats and rye to Nash¬
ville for exhibition in the exhibit of
this state in the agricultural building.
The specimens were among the finest
ever seen in this section, tho rye being
nearly nine feet high and the oats six.
The wheat came from DeKalb county
near Decatur, aud is of an exception¬
ally fine growth. This exhibit will
take a stand in the front rank of the
agricultural products of the south.
* * *
The members of the Blalock com¬
mittee have resumed their investiga¬
tions at the capitol. The committee
has reopened the investigation com¬
menced some weeks ago in the comp¬
troller general’s office and it is said
that fresh data has been secured for
the purpose of attacking the present
methods employed in the issuing of
licenses to insurance companies in
this state. The fact that tho commit¬
tee saw fit to hold up its investigation
on this matter for several weeks and
now begins on new lines, gives prom¬
ise of some sensational developments.
* * *
The state fair is assured and Presi¬
dent Brown will call his committee to¬
gether in a few days to make final ar¬
rangements. Mr. Brown makes the
following statement: “I think that the
sum sufficient has been raised. Tlie
people of Atlanta have shown a dispo;
sition to help, and this encourages the
fair committee. I did not like the at¬
titude of the Atlanta people at first,
but they have come to our aid and
there now seems to be no doubt but
the fair will be held.” The regular
meeting of the State Agricultural Soci¬
ety will be held at Tybee in August.
* * *
State Treasurer W. J. Speer has re¬
ceived notice from the treasury de¬
partment of tho United States that a
credit of §23,000 has been audited for
Georgia on account of colleges of
agriculture and mechanic arts. This
is the annual payment which has been
increasing $1,000 each year for eight
years. This is part of the fund the
department of which Hon. Pope
Brown’s committee is to investigate.
The other part is the landscript fund
of $17,000 per annum. Together they
amount to $40,000, and constitute the
bulk of the financial support of the
state university.
* * *
Several of the Georgia papers have
been publishing statements to the
effect that Governor Atkinson was op¬
posed to the plans of the state phar¬
maceutical board in spending the ap¬
propriation of $1,000 from the legisla¬
ture for analyzing aud preventing the
sale of adulterated drugs. The gov¬
ernor was not sure the law granted
the board tlie right to send out an in¬
spector as they wished and requested
that he be not employed until the
attorney general could be consulted.
The governor wishes it stated he is
heartily in sympathy with any lawful
plans the board may have for the dis¬
position of the money to good ad¬
vantage.
« « •
A final order in the cases of the
Central Trust Company of New York
against the Marietta aud North Geor¬
gia Railway Company and Y. E. McBee
against the Knoxville Southern railway
was placed on record in the United
States court at Knoxville, Tenn., last
Tuesday, whereby the receivers are
dismissed, the final payment having
been made on tho road by tbs recent
purchasers, the Atlanta,Knoxville and
Northern Railway Company. The new
owners have had possession of the
property for some time and have al¬
ready made many substantial improve¬
ments. The road is 200 miles long,
running between Knoxville, Tenn.,
and Marietta, and does a very heavy
freight and passenger business.
SEIZED SMUGGLED WEED.
Customs Inspectors at Now York Capture
Clolce Leaf Valued at Sa.OOO.
Customs inspectors at New York,
Friday, seized two lots of smuggled
tobacco worth about $2,000.
The first seizure was made at a ho¬
tel, corner Dcy and West streets, where
several bales of Sumatra tobacco " a a
found. Later a hundred small pack¬
ages of choice leaf tobacco were dis¬
covered hidden aboard the Red Star
liner Southwark.
SIDE IN SEDAN CHAIBS.
ANTIQUE METHOD OF CONVEYANCE
BECOMES SOCIETY’S NEW FAD.
Primitive Vehicle Apin to be Used in
London and New York—Men Employed
to Carry Them—Appearance of the
Modern Sedan—Hich Interior Finish.
The ultra fashionable. set of Chi¬
cago will soon startle the pedestrians
of Lake Hhore drive and Michigan
lioulevnrd by a new fad, says the
Chicago Times-Herald. They are
about to adopt the antique and aris¬
tocratic sedan chair as a means for
conveyance over short distances.
This new traveling fad has already
become quite common in London,
where the more fashionable people
have begun to indulge in the practice
to an alarming extent. They use the
sedan chair for all functions in their
immediate neighborhood, and only
hesitate on veritable State occasions to
abandon it for the brougham.
The fad soon reached New York,
where sw elldom is now trying to ac¬
custom itself to the primitive novelty
of the horseless carriage. A corpora¬
tion has been formed and hundreds
of sedan chairs have been made to be
let out at a nomiual price per hour ou
much the same system as that of the
liansoui cabs. The promoters of the
scheme are already reaping a harvest
from the use of the new vehicles for
evening parties, Small dances,
receptions, dinners and all functions
of a purely private and exclusive na¬
ture.
Between the conspiracies of the
fashionable world and the wheeling
world the poor horse seems to be in
the decline of his popularity. All the
universe seems to be contriviug to push
him out of usefulness. For the sedan
chairs are to be carried by grooms,
footmen or equerries, whichever term
the society woman chooses to apply to
her servants of the chair. Each will
be propelled by the strength of four
men. It seems like the revival of a
barbaric, mediaeval habit, when human
beings assume again the duties of a
pack horse.
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THE SEDAN CHAIR AS REVIVED.
But the sedan is extremely light in
weight, and the burden, divided be¬
tween four, is said to be not so trying
as one would presume. The men
change their positions from one side
to the other, so that the muscles of
one shoulder and arm are not over¬
taxed to the neglect of the muscles of
the other.
When my lady appears on the boule¬
vard in her sedan she will not attract
so much attention as one would fancy.
For there is nothing showy, extrava¬
gant or ill-bred about the new fad. It
is not redolent with cheap gilt, pink
satin and panels daubed with high im¬
pressionism. The new sedan is, in
fact, a characteristic modern vehicle,
similar to the body of any closed car¬
riage, and differing only in the absence
of wheels. In place of the latter two
long the highly-polished poles are fastened
to underside of the vehicle, ex¬
tending two feet to the front and two
to the rear. By means of these poles
the sedan is lifted from the gro undand
borne by the equerries.
The more popular style of modern
sedan looks then like a correct
brougham. It is constructed, how¬
ever, on a much smaller scale, it is
vastly lighter in weight aud will ac¬
commodate only one person. The !
frame work is very slender aud deli¬
cately fashioned, though durable. It
is made of pine, ash or oak. Over
this breast plates, so to speak, of
mahogany or rosewood. Others are
covered with less expensive woods and
painted black, dark green, bine or
maroon, with yellow aud red for trim¬
ming. Still others are covered with
leather in dark hues or canvas painted
in the dark somber colors mentioned.
Thus only the colors popular in the
decoration of ordinary vehicles are
utilized exclusively.
A striking and fundamental differ¬
ence exists between the modern sedan
and the European one of two centur¬
ies ago. The latter opened in front
by a double door like the modern han¬
som cab. The modern sedan, how-
erer, opens only at the side by a single
door, constructed precisely like that
of a brougham.
Although the single-seated sedan
now holds the popular sway there is
another double-seated style, which
will probably supersede it. This se¬
dan for two persons is much more
bulky and heavy than the single sedan,
and requires, or should require, eight
equerries. In outline it has the grace¬
ful curves of the English state car¬
riages, with a suspicion of rococco or¬
namentation about the moldings. The
seats are vis-a-vis like the old English
“sociable,” and there is a single door
on both sides like the modern closed
carriage.
• The severe and correct exterior of
the sedan will bo left unmarred by any
attempt at elaborate decoration. How¬
ever, the panels of the door will be fin¬
ished with the crest, heraldic arms or
•simple monogram of the family. The
equerries, too, will be costumed sim-
ly. There will be little or no display
of brass buttons, gilt braid or kne«
breeches. The equerries will be cos¬
tumed as grooms, in blue, green or
maroon, with high top boots and the
coachmen’s cape and high hat. So
that the equerry will be a cross be-
tween the footman and the man on the
box.
It is upon the interior of the sedan
that the greatest attempt at luxury is
made. The richest tapestries, rare
old brocades, velvets and satins will
be utilized to tuft and feather the so-
ciety queen’s nest. Not only dull gold,
silver and old blues will be put in, but
even brocades of pale, delicate tints
like my lady’s own dainty satin toilet,
For she will not call out her equerries
and her sedan except when she is
about to go abroad in evening dress.
The hired sedans in New York are
not fitted out on such an elaborate
scale, of course, but, nevertheless, the
use of them is reserved by the month
for fashionable women who are sure
that no ene else is allowed to travel in
them. The interior of the chairs are
thus kept perfectly clean and dustless.
Consequently the loqg, marvelous
evening wraps of shimmering white
are not contaminated and soiled by
contact with the vehicle.
The private sedan chair is going to
be an expensive luxury, for the orig-
inal cost, not to speak of that of the
maintenance of the vehicle and the
servants, is by no means small. The
body or frame of the sedan costs but
little. Several hundred cheap sedans
were made by a local carriage manu-
facturer for use on the Midway during
the £pir at $30 apiece. But they were
covered only with canvas and lined
with chintz. The new sedan, with its
elaborate interior trimmings and cx-
terior appurtenances, will cost from'
$500 to §1500, a tidy sum for a mere
whim.
Unfortunately for those women who
possess elaborate gilt sedans, they
cannot put them to this practicable
use. Some beautiful relics of the
olden time have been used, however,
for decorative purposes, and main-
tained their usefulness well as bric-a-
brae cabinets for little antiquities in
porcelain, brass and silver. Or they
have served as chests for old linen,
laces and brocades. Nearly all of the
sedan chair made in 1893 for the Mid¬
way are scattered throughout the city
in the homes of curio collectors. Sev¬
eral society women succeeded in get¬
ting the unlovely things, rather soiled 1
after contact with the rabble of the
Midway, aud then having them recov¬
ered and decorated, they exhibit them
with pardonable pride and vainly as
the real Eastern palanquin, One
woman is now using her sedan chair as
a decoration for her lawn, after having
filled it with a profusion of rare trail¬
ing vines aud beautiful blossoms.
IIow America Was Named.
Vespucci himself must not be held
responsible for the usurpation. The
unconscious criminal was a certain
Martin Waldseemutler, of Fribourg,
an eminent cosmographer patronized
by Bene, Duke of Lorraine. The
Duke probably showed a letter of
Vesnucci’s to his geographical friend,
who incorporated its contents with the
treatises which he was issuing under
t'ue assumed name of “Hylaconiylas,”
and, ns these publications had a wide
circulation, the use of the name Ameri¬
ca thus became propagated through¬
out the world.
A Famous Tablecloth.
A famous restaurant in Vienna pos¬
sesses a remarkable tablecloth, on
which i.re inscribed the signatures of
the majority of the reigning sovereigns
of Europe, the members of the house
of Hapsburg, and of a great number of
celebrities in art, music and letters.
The names were written on tho cloth
in pencil, the proprietress of the es¬
tablishment afterward carefully em¬
broidering them.
The Philosophy of Marriage.
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Miss Hunter—“Don’t you think
my lord, a man should aways marr;
a girl of entirely opposite characteris¬
tics?”
Lord de Busted—“Yaas, I certain].'
do. That’s why I’m looking for :
girl with money.”
ZINC IN COLD COINS.
Its Presence Cauiohi the KemnUlng of m
Large Amount of Money.
The tests of gold bullion and coins
Which are made at the Government
Assay Offices occasionally disclose
deviations from the standard of flne-
ness which necessitate the remeltiug
and recoining of considerable amounts
of money. In one instance a lot of
8125,000 in half eagles was remelted
because there was a variation in ttne-
ness from .899 to .903. This variation
was first discovered in two half eagles
which came from the New Orleans
Mint. The issue of these New Orleans
coins was stopped and an investigation
was made under the direction of Cabell
Whitehead, the assayer to the Mint
Bureau,
Upon tracing the history of the
bullion used to make these half eaglea
back to its first appearance at the Gov¬
ernment mints, it was ascertained that
the bars sent to New Orleans and to
the Philadelphia Mint were made
several years ago in the New York
Assay Office from foreign coin, chiefly
Spanish. The facts seemed to indi¬
cate the presence of some unusual ele¬
ment in this bullion, which only a
complete analysis would reveal. Such
an analysis was made in two different
mints, and cobalt was disclosed. The
trouble experienced in the New
Orleans coinage was attributed almost
entirely to the zinc,
No less than ten dift'orent metals
ordinarily enter into the composition
of gold bullion. These metals are
gold, silver, copper, iron, platinum,
lead, bismuth, arsenic, antimony and
tin. Of the live last-named metals,
there is barely a trace,
The presence of zinc, nickel and
cobalt is unusual in gold bullion,
When they were found in the New
Orleans half eagles, the fact was re¬
called that the Spanish gold from which
those eagles were coined had not been
refined in this country, the natural
supposition being that it was suitable
for coinage. The mint at Philadelphia,
which had been working on this same
Spanish bullion, had an unusual mini-
ber of melts condemned as “not-
mixed.” It took several months to
remedy the difficulty.—New York
Times. A
jjTr©j>lace3 H •*•■*£? .1
of Snovr.
About the end of January, or when
the sun again appears above the hori¬
zon, many families at the two Eskimo
villages near Point Barrow, in Alaska,
leave their winter houses and travel
inland seventy-five or one hundred
miles to hunt reindeer along the upper
waters of the large rivers that flow in¬
to the Arctic Ocean east of the point.
Here they encamp in large, comfort¬
able snow houses, usually dug out in
a solid snowdrift. Like all Eskimo
winter houses, these are entered by
means of a long, low tunnel; and
opening out of one side of this tunnel
there is a fireplace built of snow slabs.
A young man and his wife moved
down from Point Barrow after winter
had set in, and, as there was no ac¬
commodation for them in any of the
permanent, wooden houses, they built
themselves a small hut from blocks of
snow and roofsd it over with sailcloth.
I made them a visit one afternoon, and
found the house pretty cold and un¬
comfortable in spite of the large stone
lamp that was burning all the time.
The entrance tunnel was about ten
feet long; at the left hand as you en¬
tered, and close to the door, was the
fireplace. This was about two and a
half feet square, and neatly built of
slabs of snow, with a smoke hole at
the top and a stick stuck across at the
proper height to hang a pot on. When
the first fire is built in such a fire¬
place, there is considerable melting of
the surface of the snow, but as soon
as the fire is allowed to go out this
freezes to a hard glaze of ice, which
afterward melts only a very little.
These fireplaces are used only for oook-
iug, as the Eskimos rely wholly on the
oil lamps for warming the dwelling.—
Lippincott’s Magazine.
Fascination of the Other Side.
There always seems to bo a pecul¬
iar fascination about the other side of
tho road. Let the cyclist be getting
along never so gaylv, the chances are
that unless he be one of long experi¬
ence he will every now and then be
observed to change sides, in the hope
of securing better surface. There must
be a reason for this state of affairs, and
while it would seem to bo anything
but clear, yet it appears to us that the
reason is so simple as to escape notice.
The inequalities of the road just un¬
der one’s wheels are not only felt, but
clearly seen, they being so close at
hand; while the inequalities on the
other side of the road are farther dis¬
tant, so that they are not so distinct,
while they are not felt at all. This is cer¬
tainly one of those cases where distance
lends enchantment to the view, as will
usually be acknowledged by the rider
who makes a piactice of crossing the
road whenever occasion seems to offer.
—London Cycle and Motor World.
Snoring Caused a Death.
The snoring habit has broken up
families aqd friendships, but the first
case on record of its causing death has
just been recorded in New York city.
The vi/ Is Anna Churchill, a three-
year- 1, and the snorer in the
case l; -ard Mason, a boarder in
the Churchill household. Mason’s
more is said to be such that the people
within a block, of where he is asleep
can hear it. The other night he
came home drunk, lay down in the
kitchen and fell asleep. His thunder¬
ous snoring awakened the child and
threw her into convulsions. The fam¬
ily turned Martin out of doors aud
called in a, doctor to attend the child,
but she passed from one convulsion in¬
to another for several hours, and final¬
ly death ensued. The case will be in¬
vestigated by the Coroner, who will
endeavor to ascertain whether Mason
• an bo held criminally responsible for
die child’s death,—Detroit Free Press.
